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I worked at a cinema when TGL&PPPS came out and customers would always ask for tickets to "The Guernsey..." and trail off. See also "Alexander And The Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day" from a few years earlier.

I'm trying to figure out what it is, and I think it's that the placement of the ampersand throws off the natural cadence that comes with those syllables. It doesn't made sense, but "The Guernsey Literary Potato & Peel Pie Society" somehow works better. Or is that just me?

Seems standard pratice for bland drama fluff, trying for an unconventional title to make it sound a bit more interesting ala The Englishmen Who Went Up A Hill and Came Down A Mountain but failing miserably.

I worked at a cinema when TGL&PPPS came out and customers would always ask for tickets to "The Guernsey..." and trail off. See also "Alexander And The Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day" from a few years earlier.

I seem to remember giving up halfway through asking for a ticket for Martha Marcy May Marlene (although I can get that title right today without looking it up so the film must have done alright).

I'm trying to figure out what it is, and I think it's that the placement of the ampersand throws off the natural cadence that comes with those syllables. It doesn't made sense, but "The Guernsey Literary Potato & Peel Pie Society" somehow works better. Or is that just me?

I'm trying to figure out what it is, and I think it's that the placement of the ampersand throws off the natural cadence that comes with those syllables. It doesn't made sense, but "The Guernsey Literary Potato & Peel Pie Society" somehow works better. Or is that just me?

Did this sort of thing start with Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe? At least that title was usually abbreviated.

I haven't watched it, but understand potato peel pie *is* pretty horrible, but existed due to the lack of anything much better to eat in German occupied Guernsey which is where the film is set.

Up until the very last minute this Nickelodeon film for pre-teens was called Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging. Presumably hurriedly changed at the eleventh hour when someone realised it sounded like one of the films that Herr Lipp lookalike "In myyy shop?" guy might have been selling under the counter before Roger Cook bust in on him.

I put off watching "glengarry glenross" for years because it had a shit title, & because people kept on about what a great stage-play it had been. shit title, & all the action in a confined space?no thanks. but yes, it's nowhere near as bad as that we're so quirky & arty fried green potato peel dead poets snogging shite. I'd rather sit through 'terminator 3' again.